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International club baseball tournament
The
Baseball Champions League Americas
, or
BCL Americas
, is an annual international
baseball
tournament organized by the
World Baseball Softball Confederation
(WBSC). It is contested by the champion teams of various leagues in North America and the Caribbean, similar to the
Caribbean Series
(which is not WBSC-sanctioned).
It is played as a single
round-robin tournament
, with the first and second-place teams playing against each other in a final championship game.
[1]
The tournament began as a four-team invitational, but is expected to expand to an eight-team league format by 2028.
[2]
The
inaugural tournament
was held in 2023 in
Merida
,
Mexico
.
[3]
It was won by the
Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks
of the
American Association
.
[4]
Participants
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While the Caribbean Series is generally limited to Latin American winter league teams, BCL Americas includes the champions of the top-level
independent
(i.e. not
affiliated
with
Major League Baseball
) summer leagues in Mexico and the United States.
[a]
Cuba and Colombia had previously participated in the
Caribbean Series
, but both were dropped after the
2023 edition
of the tournament.
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[6]
Winners
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See also
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Notes
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- ^
The Mexican League was previously part of MLB-affiliated "organized baseball", but lost this designation in 2021.
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